The extender is the essential product for properly conserving the semen over time. Different criteria can impact your choice of extenders: shelf life, spectra covered by antibiotics, preservation of sperm motility… In any case, and irrespective of the extender, dilution is a key step in the boar semen production process. With the help of Kebb, … Read more
A production day in you’re A.I. center will always be influenced by the collection rate of your boars. Indeed, it is the number of ejaculates that arrive on time in the laboratory that will guarantee the best efficiency in the production of doses. So to ensure good productivity, it is essential to make sure of … Read more
There are two important steps for optimizing the conservation of boar semen over time: adding extender to the semen as soon as possible to stop bacterial development and a conservation around 17 degrees to keep the spermatozoa at rest. This article focuses on the second step. Why store semen at 17 degrees Celsius? When the … Read more
There are various little tricks possible for optimizing the efficiency of your teams, but also limit the risks of mixtures between boars terminal semen and pure semen. Indeed, do you know the “Poka Yoké” technique (translated by anti-error from Japanese)? It is a continuous improvement technique that has two main aims: on the one hand, avoid … Read more
Before a young boar enters your center, there are a number of steps to follow: quarantine, blood tests, vaccinations and, above all, the first collection from the boar. Thus, the collection career of a boar begins from quarantine. The boar must be taught to mount the dummy as naturally as possible in order to stimulate … Read more
In this video, Duc PHAM, technical director at GenePro, will present the protocol established by Genes Diffusion to enter inside a professional AI center. This protocol is crucial to secure the biosecurity of your stud and avoid any potential external contamination. Every employee has to follow this protocol to guarantee the security of your boar … Read more
This video from Duc Pham, technical director at GenePro, will explain to you the importance of warming up your CASA slides before analyzing boar semen. It will show you the important impact by analyzing the same semen when you warm up your casa slides and when you don’t warm up. And the results are really … Read more
Artificial insemination in swine farming has numerous advantages, but even with the ease of handling, some details are fundamental to achieve the best results! Check out the key points of this practice. This article has been written by Kebb Borstnez during her master thesis in Animal production and health at IFC AraquariTechnical and by Dr. … Read more
When you analyze boar semen on a CASA system, it can sometimes create an unwanted flow of spermatozoa. This flow can have a negative impact on your result. It is important to stop this flow to avoid any bad influence on your boar semen analysis result. For that, Duc PHAM, technical director at GenePro will … Read more
Extender quality, control of the production parameters, good laboratory practices are beyond the numerous factors that can influence the homogeneity of your boars’ semen. Beyond those there is one simple thing we must also consider : operators do not always mix the semen before filling the blisters or sampling to analyze the concentration for instance.